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This four-part video series is one of the best and most balanced overviews I've seen about firearms in the United States from the standpoint of healthcare. It was created by Indiana pediatrician and medical school professor Dr Aaron Carroll, whose … Continue reading →

You may recently have heard about the suffering caused by cholera, an infectious disease that can kill anyone but as with most infectious diseases is deadliest to the the youngest and the oldest. There's an epidemic of it in Yemen, … Continue reading →

Here are a few more items from the folks at Engrish.com. A hairbrush package from Taiwan: Helpful signage from a Shanghai airport: Also from Shanghai: On a pirated DVD from China: A notebook cover from South Korea: Of course, if … Continue reading →

College courses in logic traditionally spend some time talking about fallacies, often identifying them by nifty-sounding Latin names. For example, an argumentum ad hominem (literally an argument "to the person"), is attack on another person's character rather than a response … Continue reading →

Glove & Boots is a YouTube channel featuring couple of puppets. Awhile back they spun off a gaming channel (called Glove & Boots Gaming, cleverly enough) where you can watch them play various video games and comment on them, often … Continue reading →

When I worked in television in the early 1980s there were rules limiting how many television stations could be owned by a single company, both nationwide and in a single market. I thought this was a good idea at the … Continue reading →

An op-ed by Catherine Rampell in the August 24 Washington Post calls for punishing public officials who act to keep people from voting. My only hesitation is a concern that some officials probably do honestly think that they're doing the … Continue reading →

An article by Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes just published in Environmental Research Letters concludes that "ExxonMobil contributed to advancing climate science -- by way of its scientists' academic publications -- but promoted doubt about it in advertorials. Given this … Continue reading →

Those who favor retaining monuments to the Confederacy often say that removing them has the effect of erasing history, and that they honor regional heritage and important figures with virtues as well as faults. Of course, a huge amount of … Continue reading →